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Doron Levy is a Professor of Mathematics and the current Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He also serves as Director of the Brin Mathematics Research Center and co-director of the NCI-UMD Partnership for Integrative Cancer Research. His academic affiliations include membership in the Maryland BioPhysics Graduate Program and the Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC) Graduate Program.
Levy received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Tel-Aviv University in 1997, following an M.Sc. (summa cum laude) in 1994 and B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics (cum laude) in 1991. Prior to joining the University of Maryland, he held positions at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and institutions in Paris including the University of Paris 6 and the Ecole Normale Superieure.
As an applied mathematician, Levy focuses on biomedical applications of mathematics, particularly cancer dynamics, drug resistance, immunology, imaging, and cell motility. His research is highly collaborative, working with clinicians, experimentalists, and researchers from medical schools and research centers. His mathematical approaches integrate differential equations, computational modeling, and statistical analysis to address complex biological systems and therapeutic challenges.
Levy's publications demonstrate a consistent focus on mathematical oncology and immunology, with recent work examining T cell exhaustion, cancer-immune interactions, tumor evolution, and treatment optimization. His research bridges theoretical mathematics with practical clinical applications, particularly in understanding resistance mechanisms and developing more effective cancer therapies.
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2024)
- Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014)
- Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at University of Maryland (2013)
- National Science Foundation Career Award (2002)
- Haim Nessyahu Prize for Best Ph.D. Thesis in Mathematics in Israel (1998)
Levy has secured substantial research funding including Simons Foundation grants for mathematical modeling of cancer dynamics (2021-2026), multiple UMD-NCI seed grants, and NSF funding for quantifying propagation of resistance to chemotherapy in cancer (2017-2020). His research group collaborates extensively with the National Cancer Institute and medical researchers, focusing on translating mathematical insights into clinical applications. The Brin Mathematics Research Center under his directorship serves as a hub for interdisciplinary mathematical research with biomedical applications.
